Experienced engineers
intuitively recognize that security is an
emergent property of our software and
especially of complex systems. Just like we
can’t add reliability or quality at the end of
the process, we know that security must be
fully integrated into the system and software
development lifecycles. Saying it’s important
and actually adjusting our engineering
processes to properly accommodate security are
two different things – it requires forethought,
discipline, and tooling. Join master systems
architect, Shahid N. Shah, who’s spent his
career building high quality safety-critical
software and solutions for several industries,
as he describes the new CISQ Quality Standard,
the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle
(SDL), and how to properly integrate
cybersecurity and data privacy into an agile
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

Shahid Shah is an
award-winning Government 2.0, Health IT,
Medical Device Integration software expert with
over 25 years of technology strategy, software
engineering, entrepreneurship, speaking, and
writing experience. For more information,
please see ShahidShah.com

Software Special Interest Group (SSIG)

Purpose

The purpose of the Software Special
Interest Group is to provide software quality
professionals and software professionals
interested in quality with an opportunity for
growth and exchange of ideas with other
software professionals, and to facilitate
growth in the number and expertise of the ASQ
membership.

Objectives

Arrange meetings (currently monthly) at a
convenient time and place.

Provide a diversity of speaker topics
within the general heading of software
quality.

Provide knowledgeable speakers from the
professional and/or academic worlds.

Keep in touch with and respond to the
professional communities desires for the
meetings.